Simon Stockhausen

Home: Berlin, Germany

Renowned Berlin composer, sound designer and musician Simon Stockhausen develops music for Films, TV and Documentaries, and also composes music for theatre and contemporary music ensembles. As a musician (keyboards, piano, electronics and soprano sax), Simon has performed with Lalo Shifrin, Vince Mendoza, Peter Erskine, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and Australian trumpeter James Morrison. In collaboration with his brother, trumpeter Markus Stockhausen, they have released numerous CDs for ECM, EMI and Largo.

Simon's portfolio on our site comprises a wide variety of sounds and music reaching from natural ambiences to drum and music loops, dramatic and neo-classical music, jazz, ambient music and more bizarre electronic drones and textures.

Cinematic Sci-Fi Drone from outer space with evolving spectrals and extremely deep frequencies which will shake the cinema's subwoofers, Very spacious and rich, derived from a metal resonances. A great Drone for Sci-Fi and Horror movies, Video games and scientific documentaries. Science Fiction Sound Effects, Drones

Ethereal and stunning chord buildup starting soft and delicately building up to a deeply moving final chord - featuring full choir and string orchestra - great for epic and dramatic movies, teasers, adds and TV moods, Instrumental, Dramatic Music, Ethereal Music

Ethereal and stunning chord and string orchestra buildup starting soft and delicately building up to a deeply moving final chord - featuring full choir and string orchestra - great for epic and dramatic movies, teasers, adds and TV moods, Music Multi-Samples, Classical and orchestral loops

Piano being dropped on it's back from 50 cm with engaged sustain pedal crashing on the floor with a heavy impact, resonating strings in the decay phase, no artificial reverb added, Impact Sound Effects, Piano Impact

Deep ominous metallic Drone, starting with a single low Drone sounding like the Interior of an alien Spaceship then evolving with some higher Drones playing a faint distant theme. Great FX for Sci-Fi and Industral Horror movies, cinematic and scary. Science Fiction Sound Effects, Drones

Beautifully floating tabla loop featuring a chromatically tuned table melody over a releaxed tabla groove. Great as a basis for ethnic music tracks and trailer music for travel channel clips or TV moods and feature films. Percussion Achromatic, Tabla drums

Beautiful Acoustic Guitar Riff with some subtle Delays and pristine Reverb. Expressing a feeling of freedom and sincerity. Great as a compositional basis for Rock or Folk music tracks. Can also be used as corporate music, TV mood and for ad campaigns. Instrumental, Corporate Music, Corporate Pop Acoustic Music

Beautiful Acoustic Guitar Riff with some subtle Delays and pristine Reverb. Expressing a feeling of freedom and sincerity. Great as a compositional basis for Rock or Folk music tracks. Can also be used as corporate music, TV mood and for ad campaigns. Guitar, Acoustic guitar

Processed Cello playing a long note flautato style, with dynamic transitions, some vibrato and a glissando towards the end. Tuned Reverbs, long delays and slow phasing transform the original cello sounds into an unreal and mysterious atmosphere great for Fantasy and Horror movies. Horror & Halloween Sound Effects, Horror ambience

Processed Cello playing a long note flautato style, with dynamic transitions, some vibrato and a glissando towards the end. Tuned Reverbs, long delays and slow phasing transform the original cello sounds into an unreal and mysterious atmosphere great for Fantasy and Horror movies. Strings, Cellos

Epic tribal Loop with male voices shouting for War over a deep tribal Drum Groove. Cinematic foundation loop Hollywood style great as a basis for Soundtracks and Video Games. Also suitable for battle scene dramatic trailer. Music Multi-Samples, World / oriental loops